Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out?

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

I took a vow of political celibacy.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?